Ability
Ability is natural orientation. It describes where a way of approaching value creation appears to come more naturally.
A CORE STAFFABILITY DISTINCTION
What comes naturally is not the limit of what you can learn
Ability, Capability and Competence
Staffability deliberately separates Ability, Capability and Competence. They are related. They are not the same thing.
Capability
Capability is developed capacity. People learn through experience, education, training, repetition, discipline and practice. Someone may therefore build substantial Capability in work that does not correspond with their strongest natural Ability orientation.
Competence
Competence is demonstrated performance. It concerns how effectively someone can actually perform work to an appropriate standard. Competence requires evidence of performance. It cannot be inferred merely from an Ability score.
Why the distinction matters
A higher Staffability score does not prove that someone is highly capable or highly competent at that form of work. A lower Staffability score does not mean they cannot become highly capable of doing it.
This is why Staffability must not be used by itself to decide:
- what job someone should do
- whether they should be hired
- whether they should be promoted
- how competent they are
- what they are capable of learning
The important boundary
This public working wording does not alter the underlying internal methodology definition.
Staffability is designed to explore where Ability appears to come more naturally. It does not place limits on what a person can learn to become capable of doing.